Our Life With Jesus

"They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.  Awe came upon everyone, because many wonders and signs were being done by the apostles.  All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need.  Day by day, as they spent time together in the temple, they broke bread at home  and ate their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having the goodwill of all the people.  And day by day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved." --Acts 2:42-47  

Jesus said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?"-- John 21:17 The story of Easter continues in John Chapter 21, where seven of the disciples have returned to Galilee and, not knowing what to do with themselves, go back to fishing (life as they had known it befroe becoming disciples).  In spite of Jesus' rising, their failure on Maunday Thursday and Good Friday continues to weigh heavy upon them.  After they experience a fruitless night of fishing, the risen Christ calls to them from the seashore. Jesus prepares breakfast for his beloved disciples on a charcoal fire.  We might be reminded that when Peter denied Jesus three times in the high priest's courtyard, it was as he was warming himself  by a charcoal fire. And the large catch of fish reminds us of Luke Chapter 5, the calling of the first disciples, where Jesus led the empty disciples into the deep water ffor th gratest catch they have ever had.  John is suggsting that past and...